Family and Education
b. c. 1558,Age calculated from date of admiss. to university. 1st. s. of Charles Tooker, yeoman, of Maddington, and Matilda, da. of one Nipperhead. educ. Balliol, Oxf. by 1572; Barnard’s Inn; L. Inn 1581, called 1589. Al. Ox.; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 12. m. 19 Sept. 1586, Elizabeth (d.1628), da. of Thomas Eyre† of Salisbury, 2s. 1da. Wilts. RO, 1900/5; PROB 11/155, f. 27v; J. Burke, Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, 529. suc. fa. 1571. PROB 11/53, f. 196v. d. 25 Nov. 1623. Wilts. IPMs ed. G.S. and A.E. Fry (Brit. Rec. Soc. xxiii), 38. sig. G[iles] Tooker.
Offices Held

Member of the Forty-Eight, Salisbury 1591, of the Twenty-Four 1601; Wilts. RO, G23/1/3, ff. 150v, 167. j.p. Wilts. and Salisbury 1601–d.; C231/1, f. 111. commr. oyer and terminer, Wilts. 1603 – at least05, sewers, Hants and Wilts. 1605, Ibid. ff. 103v, 37. subsidy, Wilts. 1608, SP14/31/1. Wilts. and Salisbury 1622; C212/22/21. commr. aid, Wilts. 1609; E179/283; SP14/43/107. mayor, Salisbury 1612–13, Wilts. RO, G23/1/9, ff. 7, 28; R.C. Hoare, Hist. Wilts. ‘Salisbury’, 306. commr. charitable uses 1613. C93/5/20.

Steward (jt.), reader’s dinner, L. Inn 1595; fee’d counsel, Salisbury 1601 – 11; pens., L. Inn 1607 – 08, bencher 1608 – d., Lent reader 1609; recorder, Salisbury 1611–d.; Wilts. RO, G23/1/9/28. kpr. black bk., L. Inn 1615 – 16, treas. 1618 – 19, master of the lib. 1622–d. LI Black Bks. ii. 12, 14, 108, 110, 124, 176, 207, 230.

Main residences: Maddington; Salisbury, Wilts.; Lincoln’s Inn, London.
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Commons 1604-1629
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TOOKER, Giles (c.1558-1623)

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